Decaping live primers

Do not trust oil to work AT ALL for deactivating primers. A friend and I made a bunch of rounds with live primers and put a substantial amount of various oils in each case (motor oil, veg oil, WD-40, Kroil), they were all squibs sending the lead into the pipe. Each and every one of them ignited.

Just wear your glasses and deprime slowly, you can reuse the primers again.
 
not paying attention a few times when using a lee hand priming tool I've seated primers backwards and seated primers into split cases. They all deprimed just fine in the press just go slow and wear some eye protection..

( Yes I re used every single one, no problems yet )



Canadian_Zuk said:
Do not trust oil to work AT ALL for deactivating primers. A friend and I made a bunch of rounds with live primers and put a substantial amount of various oils in each case (motor oil, veg oil, WD-40, Kroil), they were all squibs sending the lead into the pipe. Each and every one of them ignited.

Just wear your glasses and deprime slowly, you can reuse the primers again.
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That's interesting. A while back I saw how easy it was to resize brass if you sprayed it with wd40 in a bucket, then shook em up and resized. When I looked around online to see if there would be problems doing that in the long run people were saying that wd40 would eat primers and/ or powder and would cause dud rounds. One even went so far as to attribute a 50% dude rate to resizing with wd40...

I may have to experiment...
 
I've done it lots. I've never had one go "bang" yet, but i wear eye protection anyway. I've never been in a serious car accident either, but i wear seat belts anyway.
 
Having a primer go off is not a big event. A puff of smoke. Not even a bang. I set of several large rifle primers very early in my reloading career due to a poorly machined priming set up (Lee Loader). Lee made it right.
Seriously, my wife in the living room, directly above my bench did not hear a thing. Just not a big deal.
Wear the safety glasses.
 
Andy said:
It might not be my post to which you are referring, but I did an experiment with oils and water about five years ago and found just that.

This topic has been beaten to death at CGN and elsewhere. All oil or water do is make a mess and make the person at the press feel more safe.
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Yes it was your post and experiment that I was referring to. Unfortunately couldn't search it because it's more than 3 years old :(
 
I deprimed a Winchester steel shot shot shell for my daughter's science project. I put it in a cup of water overnight and it was all soggy when I tapped it out. If it's an issue, why it deprime them in a tub of water?
 
ShadNuke said:
I deprimed a Winchester steel shot shot shell for my daughter's science project. I put it in a cup of water overnight and it was all soggy when I tapped it out. If it's an issue, why it deprime them in a tub of water?
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because that's messy, and pointless. slow stroke to deprime and you shall be fine. people worry to much these days.......
 
I have de-primed lots of cases with live primers in them, and then used the primers afterwards. I have never had a problem. Just use you decapping die to do it, and go slow and steady on the ram. Make sure to wear your eye protection when you do it - as always when reloading.
 
Eagleye said:
Good Grief!!
Too many people here telling the OP to "kill" the primers before removing them.

As several savvy reloaders have stated, just push them out with your resizing die.
Wear safety glasses, like you should anyway.

You can even re-use them if you want. [I wouldn't recommend re-use for a once in a lifetime hunt, lol]

I have decapped literally hundreds of live primers, with nary a problem.

I save them, and use them for "plinker" loads.
Never had one fail yet.
Regards, Eagleye.
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I agree totally !!I have been reloading for over 30 yrs and have deprimed many cases with live primers and never had one go off yet !!!
 
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